Futility, Successor​Failure

G.D.O'Bradovich III

September 30, 2015​

​​Futility-pointlessness or uselessness.Success-the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.Failure-lack of success.​

Caution. Caution is an attribute of the Occult. Caution in our dealings with others, but we can not be cautious in our Work. Because we are not fourth dimension beings, we can not know if our efforts are ultimately futile or if there are varying degrees of success. From our limited understanding, we can not know if there is a purpose for, or in, the existence of the universe. If there is a goal, then we expect the magnitude to be cosmic, and not limited to our seemingly insignificant world.

While we would like to be more forthcoming with others regarding the exciting world of the Occult, there is no point in doing so. People can not “handle the truth” and so Socrates must die. Who killed Socrates? The church, the state and the mob. The Apology is a myth that teaches a fundamental truth-lie to people, or tell them what they want to hear, and you will live with unjustified fame, but tell them the truth, or make people realize they don’t know what they think they know, and you will die. Such is the gulf between opinion and knowledge. One is safe, the other is dangerous. We have a term for this mortal danger-cognitive dissonance. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. Whereas a few people internalize the misery and reach a rational conclusion based on evidence and reason, most people will, if given the chance, kill the messenger.

The Occult can not direct us to how the world “should” or “ought” to be, but how it is. The “ought” is brought forth from the individual, not unlike the will to power. However, if the “should” is muddled, irrational and unreasonable, then we can expect neither a clear goal nor success. We witness this misguided imperative in politics, groups and individuals. Perhaps the most common example of this “ought” worldview is happiness, where happy is equated with possessing things (including people) and having stuff. If true, then “hoarders” must be the happiest individuals, but personal observation has demonstrated this to conclusion to be false. Since the loss of possessions is inevitable, these people lead a life that only knows the ever present fear of eventual loss. The totality of their behavior betrays their materialistic nature. Sense perception is all that they possess and their mind is necessarily dulled by their nature and materialistic obsession. Although their mental acumen is sub par, their will to power, or their will to possess, becomes insatiable. Such is the result of an unexamined existence.

The Occult can only enlighten us on how the world does operate and even then, the illumination can not be total, due to our nature. We must augment the deficiencies of Occult workings through our own reason, experiences and knowledge. Therefore, the individual with more reason, more experiences and more knowledge has an advantage, it would seem, over those individuals who are more mundane, sheltered and dull. The Occult adage of “Price and participation will vary” is perhaps not well known, but always applicable to the Great Work. Unfortunately, we cannot, at present, determine “success” or “failure”, for we are looking at a box containing a dachshund. Is the dog successful or a failure? Before we remove the lid, the puppy is, I’m assured by eminent twentieth century Occultists, both a success and a failure. It is only after we remove the lid and peer into the abyss, can we truly know the condition of the dachshund, since chance is not the same for all.